7 years ago:
It was late at night, 12:45am to be precise but the Todoroki household was still very much awake. The screams of Touya todoroki echoed throughout the house, why their neighbors never reported the obvious domestic abuse was incredibly infuriating and a great mystery to the Todoroki siblings. 'I'm sorry' He yelled over and over again but ''sorry'' wasn't going make Enji realise all this training was only burning through his skin ,not magically making him strong enough to beat All Might. 'Again' Enji replied coldly to him everytime, why was this worthless kid apologising? Eventually Enji decided Touya could take a break only because he suddenly had a meeting in a few hours and needed to get ready. The young boy shivered, Sobbing quietly, cold air circled him but his skin was burning. 10 painful minutes dripped by as though they were hours before his Sister finally crawled over to him. Silently she treated his wounds, by the time she was done, he was more bandage than skin. 'I'm really scared for the day Dad remembers Shoto exists' The young girl said to her 13yr old elder brother, He sighed, the numbing cream was really nice 'The thing walking around calling itself a pro hero is not our father, I'm not sure it even is human' 'Don't let him hear you say that' 'what's he gonna do?' He glared at the ugly roof of their basement because his Sister never in a hundred years deserved to be glared at but he really needed to glare at something 'I almost died this time' he said quietly 'What would've happened if he didn't have that meeting? Or if he canceled or didn't think the meeting was important? I know you've been thinking the same things, you talk in your sleep. The point is eventually I'm going to die and then Shoto will go through the same kind of torture' She stayed silent so he continued talking 'We can't do anything, no one will believe us. If they do believe us, he has enough money to convince them other wise...Humans are hard wired to always reach out for Happiness and peace yet we only know of despair. ' 'why are you telling me this?' 'I need to tell someone' Suddenly he had a Idea 'what if I just kill all of us? Burn the whole house down with dad in it? You and Sho' and Natsuo will go to heaven with Mum and I can drag dad to Hell' Fuyumi gasped 'you don't mean that!' 'Our lives aren't worth living' 'What if tomorrow someone saves us or dad gets in a car accident? What if next year when you go to UA and convince enough people the truth so that money won't be able to do anything? Just because our pasts sting so much, just because the present is painfully numb doesn't mean we should take away our future as well' Silent tears fell down her face 'please...don't even think about this anymore' Toya held his sister's hand, painfully sitting up 'ok' he said emotionlessly. It was clear she didn't want to die and Natso probably had a similar opinion. Toya wasn't the type of person to force death on his loved ones.
Meanwhile Shoto Todoroki sat with Natso silently listening to their elder siblings talk. Shoto due to his age only understood very little. However Natso was shaking and Toya had 'Trained' again just now so he assumed something bad had just happened. 'Come on' Natso said softly 'Our brother needs a hug right now' The two boys entered the basement, their steps echoed loudly like every other sound that came from the basement. 'Brother' Shoto Started crying, wrapping his arms around Toya, he had never seen him so bandaged before. 'I thought I told you I needed you to wait for us in our room' 'you need us here' 'yeah I... Thank you'. The 4 Todoroki siblings sat there in silence, having only each other for warmth. After awhile they heard the door click, signalling Enji leaving for work. Together the 4 Siblings walked back to their room for a few hours of sleep until Enji came home.
This was the last memory Dabi had of his siblings. He glanced from Shigaraki's lap at Sero who was trying to track down His Brother with Hawks. He was for once glad of how punctual Shoto was. If he was the type to always come late to stuff, he would never have figured out he got kidnapped. 'Why can't we just leak something to the pro heroes?' Sero asked as Hawks took the laptop from him 'I'm a pro hero and Dabi already leaked Stuff to me' 'that's not what I meant' 'go shower, I don't know what training they give you now in days but you smell like Blood and misery' 'what does misery smell like?' Hawks pointed to Dabi 'Oh' 'Down the hall, second door to the left' Sero walked to his bag and pulled out some fresh clothes and a towel. Before Kirogiri warped ( Dabi says Kirogiri is getting paid for all this warping, Sero doesn't believe him) him and Dabi to Shigaraki's apartment (Hawks has to many stalkers and for the same reason he was currently in Shigaraki's apartment) he had quickly packed a bag ( a very big bag ). 'Is it ok for-' 'we aren't going to find him anytime and I'd rather we rescue him while you don't stink'
After the shower Sero joined the others. Hawks who's real name he learned was 'Keigo Takami', was sleeping with his head on Shigaraki (who so far had done nothing but be Hawk's and Dabi's personal pillow). Dabi was on a call with someone on speaker [ya we 'ave him what're ye gonna do 'bout it] 'let's see, for starters... Kill you' he hung up and turned, smiling at Sero 'I found him'